• I. International inflections/histories/comparisons
• Where have All the Equal Signs Gone?: Inside/Outside the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Site 41
• A/Politics of Contermporary Anglo-Canadian Poetries: the Toronto Research
• Group and the Kootenay School of Writing
• The American Avant-Garde after 1989: Notes toward a History
• Poetic Relation and Related Poetics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Charles Bernstein
• Imagined Readerships and Poetic Innovation in U.K. Poetry
• Slobbering Distance: American, British, and Irish Exploratory Poetries in a Global Era
• Irish Terrain: Alternate Planes of Cleavage
• The American Model II
• II. International divides and intracultural differences
• Interview with an Empire
• Cultural Cannibalism and the Intercultural Text
• "Choice Voice Noise": Soundings in Innovative African-American Poetry
• 'giving tongue'
• Complexities of Subjectivity: Scottish Poets and Multiplicity
• Feminist Experimentalism, Literary History, and Subjectivity: "this lyric forever error" of Kathleen Fraaser and Denise Riley
• '&how else can I be here?': Reading Cross-Wise through Some Poetries of Canada
• The Nadja and Nanette of Gail Scott's Main Brides (Against Ochre Pediment and Aztec Sky)
• III. In practice/polemics
• Hypertext/Cybertext/Poetext
• In the Place of Writing
• Signs Taken for Signifiers: Language Writing, Fetishism and Disavowal
• What Is Literature From Material Text to Cultural Poetics
• Too-Close Reading: Poetry and Schizophrenia
• Polemic Greeting to the Inhabitants of Utopia
• After Avant-gardism: Her Weasels Wild Returning
• My Eighteenth Century: Draft towards a Cabinet
• Contributors' List of Further Readings
• Notes on Contributors